I lived in #Paris in the 90s. A city totally dominated by cars.
Hard to walk in, a nightmare to ride a bike in.
Look at it now: a city where cars, rather than people, have trouble moving.
Which, in the overheated, hurricane-plagued 2020s, is how a city *should* look.
Some things in this video that stood out to me and when I was in Amsterdam as well: people wear everyday clothing, not specialized bike wear; and, except for children and a few adults, no helmets. It's cars that make biking dangerous.
@Mikal @straphanger A few months ago, I compared fatalities per-traveller mile of car drivers/passengers in Ireland, versus cyclists in Amsterdam (who don't wear helmets). The car users in Ireland experienced more deaths.
So... pretty clear that the traffic environment (with fast heavy vehicles piloted by fallible humans) is the source of danger.
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Interestingly, when Dutch people present at hospitals with head injuries acquired when cycling, they're more likely to have been wearing helmets than the general (very low) rate of helmet wearing among Dutch bike riders.
It's not that the helmets somehow attract injury or course, but simply that when Dutch people do wear helmets to ride a bike, it's generally because they're doing some higher risk kind of riding - road racing or BMX stunts or the like.
Makes perfect sense.
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